Loved Riera's reaction to the penalty miss.
Brilliant! Touch of the Manuels there. Cleese would approve.
"At the end of the drive the lawmen arrive...
I'll take my chance because luck is on my side or something...
Her name is Rio, she don't need to understand...
Oh Rio, Rio, hear them shout across the land..."
We need more of a game plan against CCM. We struggle with their compact defence. We aren't prepared to release a quick counter through ball and out wide we only have our fullbacks who are not prepared or not able to attack quickly. Our passing isn't good/creative enough yet to break them down. The number of through balls that didn't get through was a lot. I think maybe when cunning/waff/Brockie all stuffed up in a row it was one of the only successful ones?
I think we're going to need to modify the game plan for the rest of the season. Fenton is a big loss - he was starting to get forward and even though end product was a bit lacking he dragged defence out wide which created more space. If we're not going to try Leo in defence, and use Boxall, then I think we can add another more attack minded player. You could maybe justify Lia when Fenton was bombing on, but on Saturday he was an absolute passenger. He just gives us absolutely nothing.
Frustraingly, we looked a bit toothless after 4 games where our attack looked more dangerous. I didn't think CCM had to do an awful lot to keep us out in the second half.
Lia did a few bad things but did at least as many good things. Carlos made far far more mistakes than Lia and other players were equally guilty as he was. Merrick said he performed well...
Fuck this stupid game
Lia did a few bad things but did at least as many good things. Carlos made far far more mistakes than Lia and other players were equally guilty as he was. Merrick said he performed well...
Actually, getting outplayed quite a bit these days
About four games then
Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet